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nacorUID: 176753

The intellectual benefits of attending a university or college are vastly overrated: most people could learn more by studying and reading on their own for four years than by pursuing a university or college degree.
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Does the intellectual benefits of attending a university are vastly overstated? Could most people learn more by studying and reading on their own in four years than by pursuing a university or college degree? I agree with the speaker's assertion insofar as some people can and do be appropriate to teach and study by themselves. However, I must point out that they would hardly be to well-rounded, informed, productive people.

Admittedly, the history teems with intellectual elites who prefer the means of studying and reading by themselves, rather than along with other peers in the class of the university or college, for the advantage that they could arrange their time unfetteredly. Moreover, they would not be forced to learn those courses uninteresting for them. No one will disagree that some people indeed own some innate talents or gifts for specific fields. For instance, as for a student who is musically gifted, to pay lots of time and attention on advanced chemistry courses would be to eliminate time and attention on music, thus undermining the invaluable gift. In short, the freedom to choose proper agenda and curriculum is the merit of studying and learning on one's own for some people.

However, to forsake pursing a university or college degree but to learn by oneself inextricably breed the following shortcomings. Firstly, the former education not only bring us the intellectual knowledge and experience which would help us in working world, but also facilitate us to develop our own value system and moral standard which will serve us in any walk of life, however, these cannot be learned by ourselves at home.  Under the system and the standard, we could understand and appreciate the different viewpoints and the people who are different from us, thus cooperating together in the future work under those agreed-upon goals.

Secondly, the university and college are actually comparatively small societies, embracing the diverse population, and the people owing different religion beliefs and customs. Understandably, studying in universities can help us learn socialization, or to get along with each other. To witness the socialization, one need no look further than the discussion class, where the students learn to express, discuss, negotiate, compromise and cooperate, all of which cannot be accessed to along with oneself. That is to say, university provides us environment of much use to communicate with other peers and faculties to promote our further socialization.

Thirdly, the former educator would try their best to equip the students--the recipient of the education--with various courses, balanced, appropriately paced curriculum, for the sake of nurturing and cultivating the well-rounded students. However, without the advice and monitoring of the teachers or faculties, given the freedom to choose the curriculum, textbooks and the disregarding of the exercise, students might choose the enjoyable courses and ignore some other core courses, which are required in university. In the other words, the university and college can bring to students more rounded educations.

In sum, the statement given by the speaker is too extreme, and cannot be generalized, for the reason that not all the people are equipped with the capacity to appropriately choose the right courses and pace to learn by themselves. Moreover, it is not an effective means in the light of the whole life in comparison to the former education, which is proven by empirical evidence to have cultured large number of students. In the final analysis, students should be encouraged to study in universities and colleges along with their peers.

victoriazhizhiUID: 163135

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谢谢victoria地提醒，请楼主注意